Word: standard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outsourcing, Harvard will not only be saving itself the management of the guards, it will also be saving money. By any measure, Harvard pays its in-house guards more than the industry standard. Since they are Harvard employees, they are also recipients of generous health and retirement benefits. Because Harvard didn't hire any new guards after 1992, by 1999 all of the guards were earning the maximum hourly wage and working unlimited overtime because of the small, tightly stretched force. Harvard was thus paying an exorbitant amount per hour for security...
...stark contrast to the anti-ironic stance in our exalted extracurricular realm, our views towards academic and House life are anything but earnest or genuine. As student groups and outside commitments have become the definitive standard by which to judge one's Harvard experience, academic pursuits have become marginalized. Many of us are more concerned with the practical value of a Harvard diploma than with our own personal intellectual development...
They had to revert to the standard excuse, which is that the other team made plays and they didn't. That excuse only works once, however, and Harvard used up its quota a week before...
...also important to realize that 20/20 vision isn't synonymous with perfect eyesight. The standard eye chart measures vision under conditions in which contrast is high. But there are other factors, like how well you see in dim light or discriminate among various shades of gray, that help determine the overall quality of your vision and that can be adversely affected by LASIK...
...meantime, it doesn't take much to imagine how soon the rest of us will be untethered from our modem wires. Novatel is already talking about its next-generation modem, which will abandon Seedy Petey for gsm, a cellular standard that handles data far better--and faster. That GSM-compatible Merlin, which the company expects to start selling in the middle of next year, will supposedly send and receive data at Mercury-fast 144 kbps, even from a train. I bet it'll be cute...